History Quote by Herman Bavinck

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

— Immanuel Kant

“The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides, no first-rate…

— Norman F. Cantor

Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.”

— Page duBois

“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the…

— Vera Nazarian

“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews…

— John E. Remsburg

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

— Walter Kaufmann

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the very division…

— David Bentley Hart

“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and…

— Baron D'Holbach

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

— Walter Kaufmann

“If we take any other doctrine that has been called old-fashioned we shall find the case the same. It is the same, for instance,…

— G.K. Chesterton